Her Kind Of Man (1946)

A nightclub singer (Janis Paige) falls in love with a no good gambler (Zachary Scott). When he kills a fellow gambler (Sheldon Leonard), he goes on the lam to Florida while she goes to New York. It's there she meets a newspaper reporter (Dane Clark) and they begin a romantic relationship ..... until the gambler reenters her life. Directed by Frederick De Cordova (BEDTIME FOR BONZO), I was turned off by all the film's major characters. All of them either corrupt, enabling corruption or looking the other way. I don't have much sympathy for women (or men) like Paige's character who fall for scumbags and ignore their crimes or wimpy men like Dane Clark's character who follow a woman around like a pet poodle when she's clearly in love with another man. Even the film's most sympathetic characters, Scott's sister (Faye Emerson) and brother in law (George Tobias) while not criminal are complicit. It would need a better script and stronger direction to lift it out of the routine. The most interesting character is Harry Lewis' (possibly gay) thug who seems to have a crush on Scott which proves to be his undoing.